Art Gallenson film collection, 1969-1971
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Gallenson, Art (1943-2014)
- Title
- Art Gallenson film collection
- Dates
- 1969-1971 (inclusive)19691971
- Quantity
- 2 16mm films.
- Collection Number
- A1108
- Summary
- The Art Gallenson river running video collection (1969-1971) consists of two river running promotional adventure films featuring Grand Canyon Expeditions boat on the Colorado River. Both films chronicle the journey down the Grand Canyon.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. All items have been digitized and are available. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
Arthur Sidney Gallenson (1943-2014) was a pioneer of modern commercial river running in the west. He was a boatman for Western River Expeditions in its first year, and with Ron Smith, Art helped create Grand Canyon River Expeditions. Art became a commercial pilot and subsequent to his river running career was Chief Pilot and Manager of Lake Mead Air in Boulder City, Nevada. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, attended East High and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Geology. Art passed away unexpectedly in 2014 having endured a 21 years battle with Parkinson's disease.
Content Description
The Art Gallenson river running video collection (1969-1971) consists of two river running promotional adventure films featuring Gran Canyon Expeditions boats on the Colorado River. Both films chronicle the journey down the Grand Canyon. Both 16mm films are digitized.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation: Art Gallenson film collection A1108, Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following Citations: A1108.
Administrative Information
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Description: The American Adventure00:23:02, color, sound
16mm (photographic film size)- Start: Grand Canyon; whitewater; Grand Canyon Expeditions (GCE) boats
- Show lead-in scenes "The American Adventure" narrated by Gary Merrill
- 1:20 view from Toroweap overlook, Grand Canyon NP
- 1:36 Looking down onto GCE boat (S-rig) sound bites from passengers, continues through 2:40
- 1:50 scene at start of Marble Canyon, just above Soap Creek Rapids
- 2:40 Jeeps labeled "Grand Canyon Expeditions" going into Lees Ferry (launch for Grand Canyon trips)
- 3:00 Lees Ferry boat ramp; Ron Smith (owner of GCE) in red cap; packing gear; loading boat
- 4:00 view from Navajo Bridge into Marble Canyon, boats going by underneath
- 4:25 boatman talking on the boat
- 4:40 boat going into Badger Rapids, mile 8
- 5:00 Marble Canyon flatwater
- 5:15 stop at South Canyon, Stanton's Cave (mile 30)
- 5:45 Bill Belknap (writer, photographer, started Belknap River Guides), talking about granaries at Nankoweap; view downriver from Nankoweap (mile 52); flatwater, evening light
- 6:45 camp; unloading boats, campfire, dinner; sleeping bags.
- 7:50 morning in camp (Eminence Break camp, mile 44; appears to be jumping around, not in downriver sequence)
- 8:30 rapids, not discernible until...
- 9:30 Hance Rapid (various rapid scenes, not in down-river sequence; one of them was Hermit Rapid, mile 95.5)
- 10:50 campfire scenes, talk, guitar playing; talking about running Hance Rapid in the morning
- 11:40 Boulder Narrows (mile 18)
- 12:00 another view from Nankoweap (mile 52)
- 12:10 Ten Mile Rock (mile 10)
- 12:20 Redwall Cavern (mile 33)
- 12:45 rapid scenes; aerial scenes; Great Blue Deer Creek Falls and trail above Deer Creek, looking down into Granite Narrows (mile 137); people; more aerials; bathing in river; Tapeats Creek; more aerials; rapids
- 14:40 boat stuck on beach after water dropped [once a common occurence]
- 15:05 view downriver from Nankoweap (mile 52); Bill Belknap talking about geology [but when the camera pulls back, he's in the Middle Granite Gorge, about mile 130]; Tapeats sandstone; Vishnu Schist; Redwall Limestone
- 16:45 Marble Canyon around Hot-Na-Na Canyon (mile 17); more Marble Canyon scenes
- 17:10 Ron Smith at Toroweap Overlook talking about Lava Falls (mile 180)
- 17:15 Lava Falls right-side runs; Ledge Hole, V-Wave; Big Black Rock; slow-motion
- 18:35 passenger goes over the side in Lava Falls [Prospect Springs in background at 19:00]
- 19:55 people on boats; swamper talking; passengers talking about why they came
- 21:50 mules at Whitmore Wash, mile 188. Now this is all done by helicopter.
- 21:50 Toroweap Overlook
Dates: 1971Container: Reel 1 -
Description: Voyage Through Time00:58:28, color, sound
16mm (photographic film size)- Start: morning at Grand Canyon; birds; coyotes; raven on a tree; lynx; sunrise
- 1:55 granaries at Nankoweap (mile 52)
- 2:20 view from South Rim toward Hermit Rapid
- 2:50 credits: Grand Canyon Expeditions Inc. Ron and Sheila Smith; Bill and Fran Belknap; Dick McCallum; Art Gallenson; Dean Waterman; Pete Gibbs; Don Neff; Earl Leseberg [famous Grand Canyon bush pilot]. Swirling river scenes, driftwood, rapids, in background
- 5:05 Grand Canyon National Park entrance; cars; road; forest
- 6:00 South Rim views; tourists looking over rim near Bright Angel Trail (background at 6:41)
- 6:46 helicopter in distance overlooking Plateau Point and Bright Angel Canyon [helicopters are no longer allowed to fly this low below the rim in this area]
- 7:15 Golden-mantled ground squirrel on a tree; tourists; hummingbirds
- 8:00 Powell Memorial (West Rim Road/South Rim); hummingbirds; tourists; Golden-mantled ground squirrels
- 8:42 Hermit's Rest visitors center
- 9:00 VW bus on Toroweap Overlook road
- 10:00 Toroweap Overlook
- 10:35 visitor signing register for Grand Canyon National Monument; showing comments on pages
- 11:13 narrator introduces self: Bob Davidson; backpacking; looking at watch; looking at rocks, fossils
- 12:12 views of lava flows near Lava Falls below Toroweap Overlook; basalt flows
- 12:40 baby ravens in nest, adult raven flying and feeding babies
- 13:25 dinosaur dioramas from unidentified museum
- 13:40 mule corral; riders, wranglers
- 14:20 start down Bright Angel Trail on mules; scenes on trail
- 15:15 reptile footprints in Coconino sandstone
- 15:30 switchbacks on trail; fossil ferns in Hermit Shale
- 16:00 view of Plateau Point
- 16:05 trilobite fossil
- 16:30 view of Colorado River in Inner Gorge; rapids
- 16:52 museum dioramas of Spanish, Powell, Powell exhibit in an unidentified museum (South Rim?)
- 17:25 woodcuts from Powell report
- 17:38 Lees Ferry sign; Lees Ferry fort
- 18:00 Lees Ferry boat ramp; trucks unloading; boats at dock; fishing; kayakers
- 18:36 Ron Smith at boat launch (red cap); boats leaving ramp; camera pulls back for view of Lees Backbone and area
- 20:00 Paria River adds silt and mud to clear river
- 20:18 crew introductions: Ron Smith, Dick McCallum, Art Gallenson
- 21:08 Navajo Bridge from river (mile 4.5); scene from bridge looking down onto river; camera pulls back to show people watching boats below, and you can see the old location of the Nevills Memorial on the foreground; more scenes of boats; gratuitous chipmunk and lizard scenes.
- 22:22 Ten Mile Rock
- 22:30 view of Badger Rapid (mile 8) from rim
- 22:55 boats in rapids; Marble Canyon scenes; rapids
- 24:47 mallards
- 25:03 water fights between boats
- 25:35 Vasey's Paradise (mile 32)
- 25:55 Redwall Cavern (mile 33); Marble Canyon scenes
- 26:33 President Harding Rapid (mile 44)
- 27:00 Peter Hansborough's grave marker (mile 44)
- 27:08 F.M. Brown inscription below Soap Creek (mile 11)
- 27:20 Bert Loper's boat (mile 41.5)
- 27:25 view downriver from Nankoweap granaries (mile 52); climbing around granaries
- 27:57 archeological excavation at unknown location; pottery, bones, split-twig figurines; pictographs (28:30)
- 28:35 mouth of Little Colorado River; swimming in LCR; collared lizard
- 29:38 Hance Rapid (mile 77)
- 30:15 Inner Gorge; Vishnu Schist; rapids [Sockdologer? mile 79]
- 31:10 boat beach at Bright Angel Creek (mile 88)
- 31:15 Phantom Ranch swimming pool (rare footage; this was removed about 1969)
- 31:53 sunset/sunrise scenes in canyon; clouds; thunderstorms [includes scenes from South Rim]; storm with blowing sand; thunder, lightning, rain
- 34:15 rim/cloud scenes, including Desert View Watchtower on eastern end of South Rim
- 34:35 rim falls (ephemeral waterfalls caused by monsoon rains)
- 34:55 passengers cavorting in mud
- 35:18 passengers sliding down clear waterfall; maybe Travertine Canyon (mile 229?)
- 35:55 river scenes; Red-tail hawk (36:00); mule deer (36:14); burros (36:26) [rare footage; burros have since been extirpated from the Canyon]; Desert bighorn sheep (36:36)
- 36:55 Crystal Rapid (mile 99) [formed in 1966]
- 38:10 landing for lunch; making lunch (film speeded up); filmmaker setting up camera to catch hummingbirds; eating lunch; cleaning up; repacking boats; lizards
- 40:00 hummingbirds (slow-motion); back on boats, loading, launching after lunch (speeded up); rapids (speeded up)
- 41:00 Elves Chasm (mile 117.5)
- 41:50 Deer Creek Falls (mile 137); hike up above Deer Creek Falls
- 42:40 yucca in bloom; agave in bloom (43:00); water pockets (43:50); toads (44:15); fairy shrimp (44:24); triops (44:35); pollywogs (44:55)
- 45:15 rim views; pinyon pines; junipers; coyotes with pups
- 47:02 Kaibab Plateau: meadows, aspens, pines; Flickers; Kaibab Squirrels
- 48:09 mule deer buck meets cougar; cougar stalks deer; deer escapes
- 50:28 snow-covered rim views; turkey in snow (50:45)
- 50:50 Fern Glen Canyon (mile 168.5)
- 51:32 Thunder River (2 miles off river at mile 134.5); ouzel; dragonflies; Tapeats Creek; Snowy Egret (52:00)
- 52:05 Havasu Canyon waterfalls (Ron Smith in creek)
- 52:35 Vulcan's Anvil
- 52:45 Lava Falls right-side runs (slow-motion); below Lava Falls; passengers with mud-covered glasses
- 54:05 cenotaph (plaque) at Separation Canyon (mile 240)
- 54:25 passengers swimming in Lake Mead (still in Grand Canyon but lake backs up to cover Separation Rapid); flat water; passengers sleeping on boats
- 54:40 snowy Egrets; hummingbird
- 56:03 Lake Mead; Earl Leseberg flies by in small airplane, drops newspapers in waterproof package; newspaper headline: "Moon Riders Headed For Good Old Earth"; "On The Moon"; "On The Moon And Linked Up"
- 57:05 last camp; cooking steaks; campfire; singing; full moon
Dates: 1969Container: Reel 2
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Discovering and exploration
- Rafting (Sports)
Geographical Names
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Moving images
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